Have a baby that I have to tube feed. -(. It weighs 2 .2 lbs. fed it 1 1/2 ounce hour and half ago.
Told that too much. Help. Weak, kid, no suck reflex, all day. Breech birth with hock bent against pelvic of mom. Different birth for all!
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So, if I witness that again, don't be concerned about initiating an internal exam at that point?
Melissa Johnson said:
Deborah, she has been nursing one kid.
Deborah Niemann-Boehle said:
Bubbles do sometimes come out and pop before the kid. That's not a big deal and nothing to worry about. The cord does sometimes look like a white rope that you describe.
If she is not nursing a kid and you are not milking her, she is dried up by now. They'll dry up by a week if not milked or nursing after giving birth.
Bubbles do sometimes come out and pop before the kid. That's not a big deal and nothing to worry about. The cord does sometimes look like a white rope that you describe.
If she is not nursing a kid and you are not milking her, she is dried up by now. They'll dry up by a week if not milked or nursing after giving birth.
Bubbles do sometimes come out and pop before the kid. That's not a big deal and nothing to worry about. The cord does sometimes look like a white rope that you describe.
If she is not nursing a kid and you are not milking her, she is dried up by now. They'll dry up by a week if not milked or nursing after giving birth.
I don't know about the placenta, but both the first bubble and the one the kid is in came out together with no kid.
After I got the kid out, the (what the vet thought may have been cord) came out but it was odd, like a white rope that was coming untwined at the tip. It was a very bad ordeal.
Given the hard time mom has had for the week. Do you think she will ever be milkable this freshening?
She was on antibiotics for a week, biomycin. Took the week before she started eating and drinking again.
She is much better but still not eating and drinking as well as she should, but put her with a doe that gets her to compete while eating but doesn't overpower her like the "mob".Today is day 9 after kidding
Vet gave me rapid rumen function for her last week that really turned her around..
Deborah Niemann-Boehle said:
Sorry to hear all of that. If the placenta started separating before the kid was born, she was probably oxygen deprived, which is not good. Glad to hear the mom is doing better.
Sorry to hear all of that. If the placenta started separating before the kid was born, she was probably oxygen deprived, which is not good. Glad to hear the mom is doing better.
Didn't make it Deborah. After much research, I think the chance was pretty slim.
Both bags were expelled at once, no kid. There was a membrane that was still going inside the doe. I felt but didn't feel a kid only went as far as pelvic wall. Then when she pushed again, no kid. Felt again and breech, with back legs bent at hocks.
I got the hoofs in hand and pulled the kid. She never was right, tried to stand through out the day and evening but could not.
Died that night, almost lost the doe this past week. Wouldn't eat or drink. On the mend now after 5 days of work.
2.2 pounds would be 35 ounces, so it needs 3.5 ounces in the first 24 hours, and 1.75 ounces in the first six hours. I actually feel much better if I can get 10% in them within the first six hours, so 1.5 ounces would not be too much for the first feeding.
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Melissa Johnson said:
Deborah Niemann-Boehle said:
Bubbles do sometimes come out and pop before the kid. That's not a big deal and nothing to worry about. The cord does sometimes look like a white rope that you describe.
If she is not nursing a kid and you are not milking her, she is dried up by now. They'll dry up by a week if not milked or nursing after giving birth.
After I got the kid out, the (what the vet thought may have been cord) came out but it was odd, like a white rope that was coming untwined at the tip. It was a very bad ordeal.
Given the hard time mom has had for the week. Do you think she will ever be milkable this freshening?
She was on antibiotics for a week, biomycin. Took the week before she started eating and drinking again.
She is much better but still not eating and drinking as well as she should, but put her with a doe that gets her to compete while eating but doesn't overpower her like the "mob".Today is day 9 after kidding
Vet gave me rapid rumen function for her last week that really turned her around..
Deborah Niemann-Boehle said:
Sorry to hear all of that. If the placenta started separating before the kid was born, she was probably oxygen deprived, which is not good. Glad to hear the mom is doing better.
Both bags were expelled at once, no kid. There was a membrane that was still going inside the doe. I felt but didn't feel a kid only went as far as pelvic wall. Then when she pushed again, no kid. Felt again and breech, with back legs bent at hocks.
I got the hoofs in hand and pulled the kid. She never was right, tried to stand through out the day and evening but could not.
Died that night, almost lost the doe this past week. Wouldn't eat or drink. On the mend now after 5 days of work.
Sorry this is a little late. I've been traveling.
2.2 pounds would be 35 ounces, so it needs 3.5 ounces in the first 24 hours, and 1.75 ounces in the first six hours. I actually feel much better if I can get 10% in them within the first six hours, so 1.5 ounces would not be too much for the first feeding.